This report accompanied the draft Air Quality-Related Energy Policy that provided information on current energy usage in the South Coast Air Basin, a list of policies to guide Air Quality Management District efforts, and a list of actions to be undertaken to support these policies and presented an evaluation and discussion of the potential economic impacts resulting from the draft policy. The REMI model projected that the gross domestic product in the four-county area studied would grow at an annual rate of 3.62 percent, reaching $946 billion in 2015. The model also quantified the clean air benefit of the Air Quality Management Plan from 2007 to be $23 billion in 2023, including that the benefit of more stringent ozone standards could elevate that estimate by 2023.
